Gs Winter Driving

[lexlex2]

Is this covered on the forums.

[Rob]

winter driving tips....... dont drive in winter conditions with summer tyres.

[Matthew_McNally]

Rob is right about tyres.

If you do not have winter tyres, it is still eminently possible to drive your GS in the winter - you just need to take more care.

I got my GS430 on quite wide, low profile, all season tyres (245 / 40 / 18) around OK last year with snow on the floor. (Although the first time I took it up a snowy hill, it took some getting used too - I'm not used to looking through the side windows. Fortunately, I was going really slow, and there was nothing on the road).

The tips would be the same as for most cars:

1 - Do you NEED to drive? Dont make any unnecassary trips.

2 - SNOW mode is your friend - it does help

3- Be very careful with your right foot, very gentle acceleration and braking.

4 - Be very gentle with the steering

[legendswraith]

winter driving tips.......  dont drive in winter conditions with summer tyres.

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Don't you have to have a set of winter tyres by law there though? Best tip i can give is put it in the garage and use someone elses car :P The other thing is dont top it up with water and antifreeze the lexuses use toyota forlife coolant and water does it no good whatsoever

[Rob]

not by law officially, but if u have an accident and there is snow/ice about and no winter tyres it is your fault regardless. But there are some areas where in the winter months u must have wintertyres/chains as a local law